Leopard's research interests include digital culture, interactive media, documentary film and television, education and youth culture. He has published essays in Cinema Journal and the edited collections Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games and Convergence Media History. His book Teaching with the Screen: Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture is due from Routledge in December 2012.

He is currently researching a book entitled The Information Object in the Digital Age. He can be reached at dan.leopard1@stmarys-ca.edu or 310-779-4908.

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